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HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 541-1936 RESD LUTI ON AUTHORI ZING AI~END~,'~ET S OF AGREE~ENT BETV~EEN CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO AND G. H. THO~ASON WHEREAS the City of South San ~¥ancisco, as lessor, and G. H. Thomson, as lessee, did, on the 18th day of April, 1932, enter into a lease, bearing that date, wherein said City of South San Francisco let and demised unto said G. H. Thomson certain land belonging to said City of South Sm Francisco, for the pur- pose of erecting, maintaining and operating an electric sign thereon; and WHEREAS .'said G. H. Thomson has assigned said lease to South San Francisco Sign Co., and WHEREAS said City of South San Francisco and said South Ss~ Francisco Sign Co. desire to change certain of thee terms of said lease; NOW TP~REFORE, resolved by the City Council of the City of South San Francisco that paragraphs l, 5, 6 and 7 of said lease be amended as follows: Paragraph i of said lease shall b e amended so that said p~ragraph l, as amended, shall read as follows: 1. That said premises hereby leased are to b e used and occupied by said lessee for the purpose of erecting, maintaining and operating an electric sign, and sign of painted letters thereon, and for no other purpose, except such purposes as are incident to the erection, maintenance and operation of said sign. The word "sign" as used herein, shall include the structure to be erected by said lessee for the purposes 6f displaying illuminated and painted letters and other illuminated and painted characters, as well as all equipment used in connection therewith. Paragraph 5 of said lease shall, as amended, read as follows: 5. On any sign constructed and operated on said land, under the pro- visions of this lease, on which advertising matter may be displayed by said lessee in characters illuminated with the aid of electricity alone, or in combination with any gaseous or solid material, there shall be displayed in letters illuminated by electricity, during one-seventh (l/V) of the dark portion of each night throughout one hundred and eighty-two (182), consecutive, or otherwise, of each year during which said sign may be operated, the expression "South San ~Tancisco", and some other brief expression designed to advertise South San Francisco, which expression shall be selected by the lessor, in one or two lines of letters extending for the greater part of the length of the sign. T~e name "South San Francisco" shall be displayed in a single illuminated flash and such other brief expression, herein provided for, shall be displayed in another illuminated flash. The letters or characters lo be dis- played shall b e equal in size to the letters which shall be used for other advertising purposes on such sign and the illumination of such letters shall be equal in intensity to the illumination of such other letters. ~TEREAS ~said G"H. ThOmsOn has assigned said lease to South San Francisco Sign Co., and WHEREAS said City of South San Francisco and said South Sm Francisco Sign Co. desire to change certain of the terms of said lease; NOW THEREFORE, resolved by the City Council of the City of South San Francisco that paragraphs l, 5, 8 and V of said lease be amended as follows: Paragraph i of said lease ahallb e amended so that said p~ragraph l, as amendod, shall read as follows: 1. That said premises hereby leased are to b e used and occupied by said lessee for the purpose of erecting, maintaining and operating an electric sig~, and sign of painted letters thereon, and for no other purpose, except such purposes as are incident to the erection, maintenance and operation of said sign. The word "sign" as used herein, shall include the structure to be erected by said lessee for the purposes 6f displaying illuminated and painted letters and other illuminated and painted characters, as well as all equipment used in connection therewith. Paragraph 5 of said lease shall, as amended, read as follows: 5. On any sign constr~cted and operated on said land, under the pro- visions of this lease, on which advertising matter may be displayed by said lessee in characters illuminated with the aid of electricity alone, or in combination with any gaseous or solid material, there shall be displayed in letters illumi~ted by electricity, during one-seventh (l/V) of the dark portion of each night throughout one hundred and eighty-two (182), consecutive, or otherwise, of each year during which said sign may be operated, the expression "South San Francisco", and some other brief expression designed to advertise South San Francisco, which expression shall be selected by the lessor, in one or two lines of letters extending for the greater part of the length of the sign. T~e name "South San Francisco" shall be displayed in a single illuminated flash and such other brief expression, herein provided for, shall be displayed in another illuminated flash. The letters or characters ~o be dis- played shall b e equal in size to the letters which shall be used for other advertising purposes on such sign and the illumination of such letters shall be equal in intensity to the illumination of such other letters. This lease shall become void in the event of the failure of said lessee to strictly comply with the provisions of this paragraph, except as hereinafter expressly provided. Paragraph 6 of said lease shall, as ~nended, teas as follows: 6. During one-seventh (l/V) of the dark portion of the remaining part of each year during which said sign may be opeeated, said lessee will display for said lessor in letters illuminated by electricity, such matter in language as may be requested by said lessor from time to time, in one line of letters extending for the entire length of said sign during the continuance of this lease, which letters shall conform with the provisions contained in paragraph 5 hereof with respect to size of letters and intensity of illumination. Paragraph 7 of said lease shall, as amended, read as follows: 7. The advertising service herein contemplated to be rendered by said lessee to said lessor shall extend through one-seventh (1/7) of the dark portion of each night of said term, but at such intervals as are con- sistent with the operation of said sign in the interest of the partons of said lessee, it being understood that the aggregate of said intervals shall amount to one-seventh (1/7) of the dark portion of each night. Said lessee shallb e entitled to written notice five (~) days in advance of commencing the display of any matter which said lessor shall request said lessee to display of any matter which said lessor shall request said lessee to display under the terms of this lease. The Nayor of said city and the City Clerk are hereby ~uthorized and dir- ected, in the name of said City of South San Francisco and under its corporate seal, to execute an agreement for the purpose of amending said lease in accord- ~ce with the provisions of this resolution. -O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O- I hereby certify t~hat the foregoing resolution was regularly introduced and adopted by the City Council of the City of Sou~th San Francisco this ~?'th day of April, 1938, by the following vote: Ayes, Councilmen Noes, Councilmen Absent, Councilmen ( Seal ) R. Tibbetts, M. Ninucciani, V. Boido, Reese Lloyd None J. F. ;~ager Attest: Daniel McS~eney, City Clerk By Elizabeth 0ttenfield, Deputy